jrnl - The Command Line Journal
Quickstart
To make a new entry, just type
jrnl yesterday: Called in sick. Used the time to clean, and spent 4h on writing my book.and hit return. yesterday: will be interpreted as a time stamp. Everything until the first sentence mark (.?!:) will be interpreted as the title, the rest as the body. In your journal file, the result will look like this:
2012-03-29 09:00 Called in sick.
Used the time to clean the house and spent 4h on writing my book.If you just call jrnl, you will be prompted to compose your entry - but you can also configure jrnl to use your external editor.